Your music library is precious. It's full of hard-to-find tracks, ripped CDs, and rare downloads. It might also be a mess. It can be easier to look up those songs on Spotify than enjoy the high-quality audio files you own. Luckily, there are some great free tools to clean it up and make sure that never happens again.… »4/09/14 8:00am 4/09/14 8:00am

OS X Mavericks added a handy tagging system to help you immediately find files, but it's not the most intuitive feature to use. Thankfully, if you want to manage those tags faster, blogger Marko Kästner shows off an Alfred workflow for doing just that. »11/04/13 9:30am 11/04/13 9:30am

Windows 8: If you're looking for a great music player for your Windows 8 system (or Windows RT tablet), Groove Music Player will set you back a few bucks, but it's worth it. Groove watches your listening habits as you use it, automatically tags and organizes your music for you, can create mixes you'll enjoy based on… »2/04/13 5:30am 2/04/13 5:30am

iOS: Apple's Genius does a good job at suggesting songs that you might like based on your ratings, but Groove is a music player that does the work for you. All you have to do is listen to your music, and the app takes over from there. It'll build custom playlists based on what you like, act like a personal DJ,… »6/05/12 4:30am 6/05/12 4:30am

Google is rolling out a facial recognition feature for Google+ called "Find My Face". If you turn on this feature in your account (it's completely opt-in), when friends upload photos you're in, your name will be suggested for the tag. »12/08/11 9:45am 12/08/11 9:45am

Android: Music tagging app Shazam now offers Android users unlimited tagging through the end of the year, and tacked on a social service called Shazam Friends that lets you share tagged songs with friends and view theirs. »5/01/11 8:00am 5/01/11 8:00am

iOS: Soundtracking combines the best aspects of a music tagging service, music discovery app, and music sharing all into one unique tool. The app allows you to tag a song that you're listening to, compose a status update around it, and then post the song, what you're doing, and even a sample of it for your friends to… »4/30/11 3:00pm 4/30/11 3:00pm

Know that you shared a great link, but can't for the life of you remember it, or even how you shared it? Trunk.ly collects your Twitter and Facebook link history, making it easy to browse and search through your link-sharing history. »1/13/11 7:35am 1/13/11 7:35am

Delicious isn't being shut down, but will likely be sold. If you're still eager to back up your tagged and dated bookmarks, one XML-crafty blogger has a custom import tool that can transfer everything into Evernote, tags intact. »12/21/10 7:00am 12/21/10 7:00am

Whether you'd rather keep your Christmas music from cluttering up your library for half the year, or you need iPod-friendly tracks alongside your lossless ones, you can make your life easier by splitting your music into two separate libraries. Here's how. »11/17/10 9:00am 11/17/10 9:00am

Windows: A single file, like a template, can be part of numerous projects, or apply to multiple clients. Free file management add-on Tabbles creates drag-and-drop organizers that tag your files instead of copy them for quick access. »11/03/10 4:00am 11/03/10 4:00am

If you've longed to organize your pictures as though sliding and grouping them on a desk, Viewer2 is a novel take on picture organization that feels more like real-world sorting and shuffling and less like computer-based cataloging. »5/28/10 4:00am 5/28/10 4:00am

Most of us have spent years building up our digital music libraries, along with tons of missing, mismatched, and incorrect tags on your music over that time. Here's a step-by-step guide for organizing your entire library, once and for all. »4/07/10 9:00am 4/07/10 9:00am

If you're part of a group or business that uses a blog, wiki, chat software, bug tracking, or other webapps to track progress, Flowdock wants to help you organize all that with a streamlined look and tag-based organizing. »4/07/10 7:30am 4/07/10 7:30am

Cloud-based note service Evernote does many things well, like expand brains and improve gifts, but its direct email functionality was always kind of lacking. Not so anymore, as you can tag and organize mailed-in notes using subject line character codes. »3/17/10 4:45am 3/17/10 4:45am